I've been loving the blogs about birthday parties and weddings. The ideas you all have are just amazing! Truly inspiring. I wanted to share my grandson's Carnival Party. My 5 sons dressed as carnival folk who ran the games, the girlfriends wore clown aprons and took care of the goody train, my girlfriends and family helped with everything else. I know I completely went overboard... but it was so fun!!!
Everything I did was done as cheap as possible. I used free cardboard, and found paint in the "oops" section at Home Depot. Oh, I used my cricut machine like crazy!!! I did have to buy the carnival cartridge. I had so much fun with this party!
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I meant to add yellow and white drapery from the bottom of the sign
to hide the yucky fence, but ran out of time. |
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| Everyone had to guess the number of Hershey Kisses in jar. It was so hot I had to keep moving the chocolate. |
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| I loved this train idea. By far, the Funnel Cake was the favorite! |
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My two Great Danes, Athena & Zeus had their own space!
With a sign which said, "Please Don't Feed the Lions". |
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Back drop to all the "shows"...
Balloon Animals, Magic Show (poor Avi, his finger was cut off and had to cancel),
Cake Walk, Carnival Bingo, Birthday Cake! |
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| Cake Walk |
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| Had a basic carnival menu. Took out my screens to use windows as the "pick up" window. |
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| Cutest Centerpieces I saw online! |
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| Dessert Table!!! Sugar Overload!!! |
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| My niece, Kyra, makes incredible sugar cookies! Her work just gets better and better! |
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| I made all the volunteers' costumes, since I love wearing costumes! I began with wonderful costumes, but because July is so hot I ended up with tank tops and shorts for my sons. I just painted on the ties/buttons/lapels/etc. |
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| I found a black tux with tails at the thrift store... made in 1936! I took off the arms and covered with ringmaster fabric! FYI.. my husband is on the right. I couldn't believe he actually wore a costume. He even tucked in his shirt. He had just lost 100 lbs! |
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| Richie walked around passing out goodies. |
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| The kids loved face painting then taking pictures at the photo booth. |
Carnival Games - Darts, Milk Bottles, Football Toss, Basketball Toss,
Bean Bag Toss, Gold Fish, Rubber Duckies.
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| And of course, swimming! |
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| My sister, Leticia, my sistah, Denise and I. I ran out of time, so I just wore an apron I made. |
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| Uncle Hank & Aunt Esther |
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| Notice, I made the front of our house "Andy's Cafe". |
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| Andy stood up and thanked everyone for celebrating his birthday with him. So sweet! |
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| Sister, Leticia... Brother, Carlos... and me, Lena |
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| Raymond & Peanut... best friends |
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| Tight Rope Walker Maddie |
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| Although we didn't use tickets, I made the Ticket Booth as the Welcome area. |
